Three decades of forest cover change in Uganda's Northern Albertine Rift Landscape

Land Use Policy

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 236-251

  Twongyirwe, Ronald ^a   Bithell, Mike ^a   Richards, Keith S ^a   Rees, W G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Albertine Rift Landscape; Deforestation; Forest gain; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT; PROTECTED AREA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; UGANDA; WESTERN RIFT;

EID: 84939783127     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.07.013     Document Type: Article

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